Smokeless By 2030 ?

[retrocop]

How does the government expect to stop everyone smoking by 2030? Just make cigarettes and other smoking products illegal?

I note that one initiative is to promote e-cigarettes instead of tobacco. I read last week that a study reveals that e-cigs are more addictive than tobacco cigarettes?

Can anyone explain why manual workers and LGBT individuals are two of the stubborn groups who smoke more than others? I find that a strange accusation?






https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7226247/Smoking-stamped-UK-11-years-according-new-Government-plan.html

[Old_Geezer]

Cynical selling of e-cigs is just capitalising on society moving forward creating an opportunity to gain financially by dragging society back again.

Stamping smoking out can only be an aim. Older smokers won't want to change their lifestyle and are probably addicted anyway, so they'll only stop at end of life. Younger potential smokers are who the government need to target. Perhaps raise the legal smoking age by a decade each decade.

[spathiphyllum]

I know people who, down the local skatepark have got into Ecigs(without previously smoking), then when they run out of battery have a cigarette from the older boys to keep their nic fix.

I think ecigs are clearly healthier, but still a negative.

[spathiphyllum]

I think, if people want to smoke, let em. The gov makes so much money from it. More than enough to cover the health side of it.

£13 for a 30G? £10 for 19 fags?

the gov are laughing i don't see why they'd want to stop selling smoke.

[ToraToraTora]

no need to make them illegal, just make them very expensive and crack down on bootleggers.

[saintpeter48]

Where I live there is a huge Polish, Eastern European population and without doubt the majority of them, both male and females, smoke. It seems to me that GB is way ahead of these countries when it comes to the education on the dangers of smoking.

[New Judge]

There is absolutely no chance that the UK will be "smoke free" by 2030, or at any time in the future. Many young people take it up as soon as they are able as they see it as "cool". As mentioned, large numbers of migrants from all sorts of countries smoke heavily and they will continue to arrive so long as I have a hole in my Aris. Interesting in the report is this:

//Across the country, 31 per cent of social housing tenants are estimated to be smokers.//

Strange that they have to be provided with heavily subsidised housing because they cannot afford the going rate, but they can afford 50p a throw for their ciggies.

//Rates are also much higher in areas of deprivation.//

If they can afford £10 a pack they are not "deprived".

//‘Tackling these inequalities is the core challenge//

It's a strange logic that says that people with (supposedly) limited funds buy far more of a totally unnecessary and harmful product and that makes them "unequal" to their better off counterparts who don't. The core challenge is dissuading all people from smoking.

Anyway, tobacco is not the major threat to health in the future, cannabis is. Its consumption is now rife, you smell it everywhere you go and the authorities have all but given up on enforcing its possession as a Class B drug.

[ToraToraTora]

//Rates are also much higher in areas of deprivation.//
If they can afford £10 a pack they are not "deprived".
They are always covered in tough stickers and piercings judge and sporting an I phoneX, 60 inch plasma and get just eat to do the catering. "deprived"? right oh!

[retrocop]

Can any one suggest why these two groups of people should be singled out as 'stubbornly high' in the smokers league?


//The document says the ambition to go ‘smoke-free’ by 2030 will be ‘extremely challenging’ as although smoking rates are falling overall they remain ‘stubbornly high’ for certain groups such as manual workers and those who are LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender).//

[spathiphyllum]

Yes, sure.


Stress, i think.